My Trails into the Past

Genealogists are great at documenting our ancestors’ lives but not so great documenting our own. I’ll write about what I’ve been doing the past week. This idea came from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing, who started this meme. I have completed twelve weeks of “lock down” due to Covid-19. I left the house this past week twice. Once to have blood work done and the second time to accompany my husband to Berkeley Bowl to grocery shop. I also went to the meadow to do phenology and took walks to the mailbox. Otherwise, I’m meeting people on Zoom. Genealogy Blog Writing : Blogs posted this past week: My post last week was chosen as one of the three highlighted in the 52 Ancestors weekly email. That will make three times this year! 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 23: Wedding—The Wedding of Bill Hork & Lela Johnston .  I wrote about my parents’ wedding on 19 April 1953. Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Pauleen’s Crazy Month of May Pandemic Meme Part I . We answered the fir...

It's  Saturday Night  - time for more  Genealogy Fun! Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music here) is to: 1)  Check out Pauleen Cass's blog post,   Crazy Month of May 2020 Meme: Pandemic Experiences.   2)  Let's do the first 10 of the prompts and save the last 11 for next week. 3)  Tell us about your own pandemic experience in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a post on Facebook.  Be sure to leave a link to your work as a Comment to this post and also on Pauleen's post. 4)  Thank you, Pauleen!! Here are my responses: 1) What are you most grateful for during this covid-19 crisis? I am grateful for the health of my family. Neither of us have gotten sick, nor have our two daughters. We’re fortunate that the one who lives in New York City has kept well. I am glad for telephone and Zoom meetups to keep in touch with other...